America's Moneyline, Incorporated v. Josephine Coleman

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “the stakes of the arbitration are the ultimate amount in controversy” for a petition to compel
• rejecting argument that amount in controversy in action to compel arbitration could be measured by stakes in underlying class action, rather than individual claim subject to petition itself
• when declaratory judgment is sought, amount in controversy is the value to the plaintiff of the declaratory judgment
• “[I]n order to ascertain whether the jurisdictional amount for the diversity statute has been met, the appropriate focus is the stakes of the underlying arbitration dispute.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).